TKC 203 Kevin Eagan

News – 1) An eBooks adoption milestone. 2) eBook library borrowers also buy lots of eBooks, survey shows. 3) Amazon’s invitation for developers around the world to submit apps for international distribution sparks expectations of Kindle Fire availability outside the U.S. 4) Rumor has it the Fire’s price will be trimmed by $50 when the new Fire is launched later this year.

Tech Tips – How to trim what’s stored on your Kindle Fire, if your memory is full. Also, how to sign up for the brand-new Kindle Chronicles Book Club (KCBC). Short version: set up your profile at kindle.amazon.com and send me an email at PodChronicles at Gmail Dot com with your profile name. Follow me (profile name: Len Edgerly), and buy the first book we’ll read for KCBC, A Gay and Melancholy Sound by Merle Miller. It costs $5.99 at the Kindle Store but you can also borrow it for free if you have a Prime membership. Miller’s novel was the first pick by Nancy Pearl in her Book Lust Rediscoveries partnership with Amazon.

Interview (starts at 22:42) – Kevin Eagan, creator of the Critical Margins blog, spoke with me by Skype on June 19th about social reading, Goodreads, Imagineby Jonah Lehrer, what he misses most about print books, and more.

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Another great episode Len, being from the UK I’m unable to take advantage of the Kindle lending library or any of the other prime benefits that are available to US customers. Hopefully like they did with the Kindle Amazon will roll out these enhancements across Europe in the future.

This being the case I am giving Goodreads a try, it looks interesting so hopefully there is a solid community there.

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[…] If you compare these questions with the interview in TKC 294 this Friday, you will notice that I never asked approximately least half of them. The unasked questions were how he is using Goodreads, what he learned about literary elitism in his first podcast conversation with his co-host Jason Braun, how his TV consumption has changed, what he thinks of subscription models for books such as Oyster and Scribd, and whether he has any new thoughts on book clubs for Kindle, an idea he mentioned in our interview two years ago. […]

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